Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub
Professor/Managing Director, Smart Grid Center Qatar/IEEE Fellow
Office Number: 246E
Office Phone: +974.4423.0110
Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub holds two PhDs in electrical engineering and humanities from Poland. He has a long experience of teaching and research at many universities worldwide, including Qatar, Palestine, Poland, the U.S.A., and Germany.
Since 2006, Abu-Rub has been associated with Texas A&M University at Qatar where he is currently a professor and the managing director of the Smart Grid Center – Extension in Qatar. He also has served for five years as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at Texas A&M at Qatar.
Abu-Rub’s main research interests are power electronics, electric drives, renewable energy systems, and smart grid.
He has co-authored more than 600 journal and conference papers, six books, and two issued patents.
Abu-Rub has received many prestigious international awards and recognitions, including the American Fulbright Scholarship and the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He is an IEEE Fellow and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science, Gdansk University, 2004
- Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, 1995
- Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland, 1990
Experience
7/2014-8/2019 Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering program, Texas A&M University at Qatar
1/2014-present Managing Director of the Smart Grid Center – Extension in Qatar (SGC-Q)
7/2012-present Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar,
5/2011-5/2015 ABET coordinator, ECEN department, Texas A&M University at Qatar
2006-2012 Associate professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar
2005/2006 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (12-month Research Fellowship), University of Wuppertal, Germany
9/2000-8/2004 Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Birzeit University, Palestine
9/2001-8/2006 Associate Professor, Birzeit University
9/1997-8/2001 Assistant Professor, Birzeit University
2001 Visiting professor, Texas A&M University, USA (Fulbright scholarship)
9/1996-8/1997 Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland
1996 Representative and Engineer, Enamor, Gdynia Marine University, Poland,
1991 - 1995 Assistant at Gdynia Maritime Academy in Poland
Publications
Patents & Submitted Innovations
Six innovations submitted through QF and one patented in Poland
Running Grants
- Smart Grid Dynamic Control and Management with Big Data Process Platform, LPI: H.Abu-Rub, QNRF, NPRP10-0101-170082, three years (2018-2021).
- On Line Continuous Monitoring, Detection, and Location of Partial Discharge and Dynamic Aging in Medium and High Voltage Electrical Insulation, PI: H. Abu-Rub, QNRF, NPRP10-0101-170085,three years (2018-2021).
- Highly Efficient Inductive Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicles, Primary Research Mentor: H. Abu-Rub, UREP20-101-2-029, one year (2017-2018).
- Microgrids Advanced Dynamic Control Architecture and Distributed Energy Optimization, PI: H. Abu-Rub, NPRP9-310-2-134, three years (2017-2020)
- Integration of Solar Generation and Electrical Vehicles into The Smart Grid, PI: H. Abu-Rub, NPRP 8-241-2-095, three years (2016-2019).
- MW PV Power RD&D Using SiC-based qZS Cascade Multilevel Inverter and Battery Energy Storage, LPI: H. Abu-Rub, NPRP X, five years (2013-2019)
Publications
BOOKS
- Abu-Rub, A. Iqbal, J. Guzinski: High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab/Simulink Models, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN: 978-0-470-97829-0, 2012 (500 pages).
- Abu-Rub, M. Malinowski, K. Al-Haddad: Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial Applications, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN 978-1-118-63403-5, 2014 (856 pages).
- Guzinski, H. Abu-Rub, P. Strankowski: Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN: 978-1-118-78289-7, 2015 (366 pages).
- Liu, H. Abu-Rub, B. Ge, F. Blaabjerg, O. Ellabban, P. C. Loh: Impedance Source Power Electronic Converters, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN-13: 978-1119037071, October 2016 (424 pages).
SELECTED JOURNAL PAPERS
- Y Liu, B Ge, Abu-Rub, F Blaabjerg, Single-Phase Z-Source\/Quasi-Z-Source Inverters and Converters: An Overview of Double-Line-Frequency Power-Decoupling Methods and Perspectives, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2018, 12 (2), 6-23.
- P Kakosimos, Abu-Rub, Predictive Control of a Grid-Tied Cascaded Full-Bridge NPC Inverter for Reducing High-Freque§ncy Common-Mode Voltage Components, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018, 14 (6), 2385-2394.
- P Kakosimos, Abu-Rub, Predictive speed control with short prediction horizon for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018, 33 (3), 2740-2750.
- Malinowski, J. I. Leon and H. Abu-Rub, "Solar Photovoltaic and Thermal Energy Systems: Current Technology and Future Trends," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, no. 11, pp. 2132-2146, Nov. 2017. doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2017.2690343
- Bayhan, M. Trabelsi, H. Abu-Rub, M. Malinowski, "Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control for a Quasi-Z-Source Four-Leg Inverter under Unbalanced Load Condition," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.64, no.4, pp.2560-2569, April 2017.
- Mosa, R. Balog, H. Abu-Rub, “High Performance Predictive Control of Quasi Impedance Source Inverter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.32, no.4, pp. 3251-3262, April 2017.